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A labour dispute at a West End hardware and construction supplier is headed for mediation talks today.
It marks one week since more than a dozen staff at SAL Southampton walked off the job over what they claimed was the threatened dismissal of a gar...
DATE: Jul 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Complaints linked to Covid-19 accounted for a significant portion of the Ombudsman for Bermuda’s caseload last year, according to the office’s 2020 annual report.
They ranged from emergency unemployment benefits for people put out of work to pandemic...
DATE: Jul 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Ongoing roadworks were announced for the East End as Belco trenching continues next week, according to the Ministry of Public Works.
The dig around Harrington Sound Road is to move past Paynter’s Road in Hamilton Parish to the Belco substation, while...
DATE: Jul 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A “safe space” at the heart of Hamilton has been dedicated to commemorate the landmark Theatre Boycott of 1959.
The new Freedom Square was also unveiled yesterday in tribute to other key moments where Hamilton hosted the island’s push for social just...
DATE: Jul 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A weeklong work dispute deadlock at a Southampton construction supplier SAL is said to be headed to the Labour Relations Department today.
Fifteen staff from SAL Southampton remained off the job all this week over what was said to be a threat to sack...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sixteen welders have been trained up in connecting pipes as part of the island’s wastewater infrastructure upgrades, the public works minister announced.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the accreditation through McElroy Manufacturing had been arr...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Tenants at Southside, St David’s lost water today after a break in the main water line, the Bermuda Land Development Company advised.
Andrew Dias, the chief executive of the BLDC, said ageing galvanised piping left over from the US Base at Southside ...
DATE: Jul 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Hamilton city block closed to traffic by a broken sewerage pipe is just a day from reopening – but held up until the arrival of spare parts.
The stretch of Dundonald Street from Bull’s Head car park to Washington Street is shut off while repair cre...
DATE: Jul 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A “voluntary and loving” display of rainbow colours from a government building such as Cabinet or Camden House could be enough to empower LGBTQ+ citizens, former Attorney-General Michael Scott told a Bermuda Pride panel last night.
Mr Scott, who step...
DATE: Jul 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Crunch talks are expected today at the Bermuda Industrial Union as a labour dispute at the hardware and construction supplier SAL Southampton dragged on for a third day.
Wornell Steede, chief union shop steward at SAL, said yesterday that management ...
DATE: Jul 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell